Luisa Caldwell
The Apian Way was lined with cypress trees I’m told. Luisa Caldwell, in her Brooklyn studio, is working on something that resembles one of those Roman trees. Biography is a piece of all this. Caldwell’s mother was from Italy and the contemporary and historical culture of the place summons her attention. She speaks the language; […]
Charles Yuen
Charles Yuen’s studio time is a friendly civil war between old comrades of the painter’s trade, figuration and abstraction. Sometimes –often– for Yuen to abstract is to decapitate. Minus head the former figure terminates in a swirling of color. Or, other way around, the head, minus figure, swirls in a field of sine waves emanating […]
Jude Tallichet
The first ‘shot’ you get as you walk down the aisle is the Hyundai Accent. All white plastic with wheels and panels akimbo. The piece was assembled indoors after being cast from its original –a 2006 model– in the short driveway outside. Part, one imagines, performance for the neighbors part concession to the reality of […]
Ann Shostrom
Ann Shostrom drives –and sews– against the grain. She pursues the reverse commute of the bourgeoisie. Shostrom teaches and maintains her studio in rural Pennsylvania and thus drives back to the city at weekends and summers while others are fleeing to the country. Her studio is a cluttered, rag pickers den where she assembles fabric […]
Moira Williams
Visiting Moira Williams’ studio requires flexibility. Her studio being, as with increasing numbers of artists, a dispersed site. It, her studio, does have a small geographical presence in a pink-painted room in Bushwick NY, but thereafter the studio trails across her computer’s hard drive, the Milky Way, walks through Brooklyn, Bogota and Barcelona and urban […]
Peter Drake
Shifts in scale abound in Peter Drake’s studio. The small toy figures he often paints from are no more than a wee, few inches high. His painting Four Riders, birthed from such few inches is close to 10 x 12 feet. Steamer, less commanding of ones attention to size at 52” x 42”, is similarly […]
Elana Herzog
Elana Herzog is perhaps best known for large-scale works where rugs or blankets invade the architecture. Tens of thousands of staples affix the aforementioned rug to the gallery wall; rug and wall are thus married never to be divorced. And though we do not actually see it, we know that this mode of ‘installation’ must […]
Elise Siegel recent Studio Visit
An odd confluence of Alice Monro with the cast figures of Pompeii and Herculaneum populate Elise Siegel’s studio. Ceramic busts of distinct individuals embrace the materialization of Phillip Guston and prairie habitudes of Grant Wood. Moving beyond an adolescent idealism this work builds expressive presence in how these characters have been slapped around, gouged and […]
